Just a little e-mail exchange between me and Mary Campbell-Droze that cracked me up:
From: Campbell-Droze, Mary (GPMS)
Subject: From the Feb 2009 iss of Popular Music and Society "Constructing a Slovak identity in rap music"
In my 12 years here, I think that's about the niche-iest subject matter I've ever seen. The only way it would become niche-ier would be "Constructing a Slovak identity in rap music with beagle accompaniment."
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From: Magee, John (GPMS)
Subject: RE: From the August 2009 diss of Popular Music and Society
Ah, yes, I remember Grandmaster Slav’s big breakout hit, “Bratislava, Slovakia”. There are those who thought it was too derivative of Grandmaster Flash’s “New York, New York”, but I just thought he was kickin’ it Old-School-Slav style:
Bratislava, Slovakia, big city of dreams
And everything Bratislavan, ain't the way that it seems
You might get fooled if you come from out of town
But I'm a hardcore Slav and know my way around
Too much, too many Slovaks, too much (aha-ha)
Too much, too many Slovaks, too much, Raaah!
Devín Castle on the rock, in crumbling stone
Built in the Eight Century, A.D.
Rows of eyes, broken out windows
Now it's fallin' down and weedy
Miles of Slovaks, Staromestska Avenue
Doin' what they gotta do, a Slav ain't alone
I'm living in the land of plenty and many
But I'm a damn poor Slav and I don't know why…
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From: Campbell-Droze, Mary (GPMS)
Subject: RE: From the August 2009 diss of Popular Music and Society
In one Grandmaster Sweep, you've managed to lock up the Slav vote on your next run for Wolverine Lake's water district chair! That, or alienated it so profoundly people who simply live next door to you won't even get elected to anything.
Deservsa Pulitskaja Preyza!
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I'm pretty sure it's comments like that which dragged everybody into World War I.
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